Parsing Twitter JSON object in Python

Question

I am trying to download tweets from twitter.

I have used python and Tweepy for this. Though I am new to both Python and Twitter API.

My Python script is as f

Answer 1

You can use the JSON parser to achieve this, here is my code on App Engine that handles a JSONP response ready to be used in with a JQuery client:

import webapp2
import tweepy
import json
from tweepy.parsers import JSONParser

class APISearchHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):

        CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxxx'
        CONSUMER_SECRET = 'xxxx'
        ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY = 'xxxx'
        ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = 'xxxx'

        auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
        auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET)
        api = tweepy.API(auth, parser=JSONParser())

        # Query String Parameters
        qs = self.request.get('q')
        max_id = self.request.get('max_id')

        # JSONP Callback
        callback = self.request.get('callback')

        max_tweets = 100
        search_results = api.search(q=qs, count=max_tweets, max_id=max_id)
        json_str = json.dumps( search_results )

        if callback:
            response = "%s(%s)" % (callback, json_str)
        else:
            response = json_str

        self.response.write( response )

So the key point is

api = tweepy.API(auth, parser=JSONParser())